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Protests against police violence by the Black Lives Matter movement in the US have been criticized by some for not following the precedent of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This essay examines those responses and shows that they are based on selective memory of the 1960s that misunderstands the history of black protest and white reaction in the US.
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This page is a summary of: Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of U.S. Black Politics, Political Theory, April 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0090591716640314.
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